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News and Events in 2026
Events:
21-25 July: Delivered a presentation at an invited symposium at The 31st International Congress of Applied Psychology, Florence, Italy
18-21 August: Delivered a course on psychology and climate change at Hokkaido University, Japan
21 October 2026: To deliver a workshop for the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology
Special issues:
Ongoing - Environmental psychology: Trends and reflections
https://www.sciencedirect.com/special-issue/328834/environmental-psychology-trends-and-reflections
Published - Psychological understanding of misinformation and disinformation in the face of environmental crises
https://bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/20448295/2026/117/S1
New publications in the year:
Gratitude to nature, environmental stewardship, and well-being in 10 countries. Scientific Reports.
The significance of global identity in shaping individual behavior and policy support: Focus on plastic purchasing and consumption. Environmental Psychology Research.
Measuring nature connectedness in children and adults: Validation of the Chinese Nature Connection Index. Environmental Psychology Research.
From identity to caring: A 44-country examination of the role of global social identifications in concern for global issues. Political Psychology.
Hope amidst climate change: Psychometric properties and cross-cultural measurement invariance of the Climate Change Hope Scale among youth in Global South countries. PsyEcology.
Sampling and processing of climate change information and disinformation across three diverse countries. British Journal of Psychology.
Energy insecurity and air conditioning in urban environments: Structural constraints, coping practices, and wellbeing in Hong Kong. Energy Research and Social Science.
Normalising energy insecurity? Housing precarity, well-being, and constrained endurance in urban Hong Kong. Energy Strategy Reviews.
Nature connectedness in the family context: A systematic scoping review. Journal of Environmental Psychology.
Beyond WEIRD societies: Global social identifications across 45 countries and their socio-cultural and economic predictors. Political Psychology.
Curvilinear relationship between climate advocates’ word-deed consistency and public willingness to follow. Journal of Environmental Psychology.
Measuring household energy insecurity in a dense, warm-climate city: Behavioural coping profiles and perceived financial burden in Hong Kong. Energy Policy.
Research trends in environmental psychology: A bibliometric analysis of peer-reviewed publications, 2004-2024. Journal of Environmental Psychology.
Intergenerational pathway to nature connectedness. Journal of Environmental Psychology.
News and Events in 2025
3-4 October: Co-organized and delivered a keynote speech at the International Nature Connectedness and Environmental Education Conference. https://nature.owlhk.org/en/conference
August: Delivered a course on psychology and climate change at Hokkaido University, Japan.
June: Delivered a presentation titled “Global norm of government climate action and public support for domestic climate policies” at The International Conference on Environmental Psychology 2025 at Vilnius, Lithuania
April: Delivered an invited speech titled “Climate resilience: What psychology can offer” at the Psychology Day at the United States. https://psychologycoalitionun.org/
New publications in the year:
A new book on nature connectedness and outdoor education
https://bit.ly/4i3c28C
A letter about climate change psychology research
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102856
Papers on climate policy support
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000755
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102694
Papers on climate change anxiety
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102798
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102785
A review on determinants of clean energy technology adoption
https://doi.org/10.1038/s44359-025-00075-9
A review regarding culture and pro-environmental behavior
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2024.101986
A review on climate change information seeking behavior
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102742
A paper on climate change conspiracy theories and the US-China conflicts
https://doi.org/10.1111/josi.70015
Papers on resilience among Indigenous rice farmers
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103631
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crm.2025.100711
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.107111
A paper on coffee supply chain in the Phillipines
https://doi.org/10.1002/sd.70172
Meta-analyses on mental disorders following exposure to natural hazards
https://doi.org/10.1080/20008066.2025.2476809
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102690